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Very few changes were made in the exhibition series.  [[strikethrough]] In [[/strikethrough]] ^[[To]] the collection of Washington relics was added a set of twenty volumes of a work entitled "Histoire Generale du Voyages" & printed 1746-1789 and with the monogram GW on the cover of each volume.  On the fly leaf of the first volume is written "Was intended for General Washington by the Marquis Rochambeau but a British Cruiser saved it for me - A.D.".  This work is a temporary loan from Dr. G. Brown Goode.
Some official orders and other papers pertaining to the funeral of President Lincoln in Indiana and Illinois, [[strikethrough]] were [[/strikethrough]] ^[[received]] from Mr. C.P. Jacobs, were